Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 50, Issue 11, 20200522(2021)

Hundred-watt green picosecond laser based on LBO frequency-doubled photonic crystal fiber amplifier

Hui Chen1...2, Zhenxu Bai1,2, Jiancai Wang3, Bingyuan Zhang3, and Zhen'ao Bai45,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 2Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 3Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Science and Technology, School of Physicsc Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252059, China
  • 4Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
  • 5Beijing GK Laser Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 102211, China
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    Picosecond pulse laser with high average power is critical to applications such as industry processing, space exploration, etc. However, due to the narrow pulse width and low single pulse energy, the mode-locked picosecond seed light is difficult to be amplified directly through the traditional traveling-wave amplification, which limits the nonlinear frequency conversion efficiency. Here, by using grating chirped-pulse stretcher and slit, seed light pulses with a pulse duration of 7 ps and a central wavelength of 1030 nm at the repetition rate of 52 MHz were stretched to 32 ps with the spectral width of 1.1 nm. Then the average power was amplified to 190 W by using two air-clad photonic crystal fiber amplifiers (PCFAs). Finally, via a temperature phase-matched LiB3O5 crystal, output power up to 103.1 W was obtained with the beam quality factor 1.17 and the second harmonic conversion efficiency of 54.3%.

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    Hui Chen, Zhenxu Bai, Jiancai Wang, Bingyuan Zhang, Zhen'ao Bai. Hundred-watt green picosecond laser based on LBO frequency-doubled photonic crystal fiber amplifier[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(11): 20200522

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers & Laser optics

    Received: Dec. 28, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 7, 2021

    The Author Email: Bai Zhen'ao (baizhenao@hotmail.com)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20200522

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